Grace Beverley

And that was exciting enough to me, even if at the moment it might not feel like it for a lot of people, it might not feel worth it online.

I want to say as well, there are so many different types of cringe that are worth doing rather than just posting online.

I do think the fixation is a lot around that at the moment, but obviously that's an experience I had with it.

It felt very embarrassing, but it didn't

changed the trajectory.

It didn't actually affect my everyday.

It probably set a better threshold for who would actually be friends with me.

And I made sure to get actual real people that are still in my life now who could see past that like kind of semi-embarrassing thing I was doing that's now turned into something much bigger.

And I think one of the things that really benefited me is that I then built that tolerance young.

So I've been able to then take public risks consistently since then.

Whether that's

Starting this podcast, whether that's launching a new business, whether that's going into new product verticals, whole new industries or public speaking.

I think all of this links back to learning not to take things personally and not to care overly about the opinions of others, but to care most of all about where I want to get to and how I want to get there.

Like I'm the only one who's going to be living my life and therefore I should be the only one who's concerned about what that looks like and what that feels like above all and where I'm going to get to rather than anyone who might be perceiving that and thinks that for some reason that feels embarrassing to them.

I genuinely think that if I had let that first wave of cringe, which was pretty intense because I remember going back to sixth form after one of the holidays and just noticing that I was like, everyone's seen this account.

I was like, everyone's seen this fitness account, even though it was under a different name, even though I didn't post my face.

I was just like, yeah.

And it was intense and I didn't like it.

And I had joined that school late, so I didn't know many people.

But my entire career would have been different had I not just been able to stick to that and been able to prioritize what I found exciting.